Art der Publikation: Beitrag in Sammelwerk

Reference Models for Standard Software - Scientific Myths Instead of Practical Reality?

Autor(en):

Schütte, Reinhard

Herausgeber:

Bergener, Katrin; Räckers, Michael; Stein, Armin

Titel des Sammelbands:

The Art of Structuring. Bridging the Gap Between Information Systems Research and Practice

Seiten:

125-136

Verlag:

Cham: Springer

Veröffentlichung:

2019

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-06234-7_12

Zitation:

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Kurzfassung

Information models have been an important research topic in information systems for decades, and reference modelling has been an important subfield since the 1990s at the latest. Reference models are propagated in particular for the documentation, selection and implementation of standard application systems. There are few empirical studies in information systems on the actual usage of information models in general and reference models in particular. This article is dedicated to the empirical studies on the use of reference models and draws critical arguments from the perspective of the software manufacturers and the application company using the model as to why reference application system models are not used in corporate practice. In reality, the hopeful claims of researchers have not been proven, so their statements are more assertive than substantiating, which is scientifically disappointing. Information systems should be less concerned with myths and more with reality and consider how reference modelling research needs to be adapted to the practice-oriented nature of the discipline.